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...they both had Cokes in paper cups, and Mamie dipped into a box of Cracker Jack as she watched the game. When the Yankees tied it up, 3-3 in the ninth, the excitement in the presidential box mounted perceptibly, and in the tenth, when Washington's Mickey Vernon finally polished off the game ( 5-3) with a sizzling home run over the right-field fence, Ike stood up and pounded his fist in his hand, and Mamie hugged and kissed Griffith. As the triumphant Washington players gathered around Vernon, Ike leaned precariously over the edge...
...Mount Vernon...
Cooled. In Appleton, Wis., charged with selling adulterated milk, Dairyman Vernon Ferron explained that he had "just put a couple of quarts of water in to cool the milk," paid a $25 fine...
...John Vernon Patrick, Jr. '52, adviser to the Freshman Union committee and proctor in the Yard, said the positive values of Tuesday's Smoker are considerable, and the kind that might occur at any time...
Souvenir hunters plagued the tree until the Cambridge government confiscated the remains. Hoping to make the Elm myth "an object lesson in patriotism for the whole country," officials sent fragments to each of the forty-eight governors, a polished cross-section to Mount Vernon, and thirty-two inscribed blocks abroad. They also presented two gavels of Washington Elm to each state legislature. All that remained to mark the tree site was a bronze disk, resembling a manhole cover, in the middle of Garden street...